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volt-ampere

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volt-ampere [′vōlt ′am‚pir]
(electricity)
The unit of apparent power in the International System; it is equal to the apparent power in a circuit when the product of the root-mean-square value of the voltage, expressed in volts, and the root-mean-square value of the current, expressed in amperes, equals 1. Abbreviated VA.


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